Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:44:17AM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Steve Mayer
Richard, You can do a 'dpkg --purge package name Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard B. Talley wrote: Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs currently installed that have been deselected by the user. Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and choose *install*. This

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread servis
On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Behan Webster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning